{"id":13328,"date":"2020-03-03T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T01:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13328"},"modified":"2020-03-03T18:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T02:09:39","slug":"super-tuesday-voting-disasters-natural-and-completely-man-made-bradcast-332020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13328","title":{"rendered":"Super Tuesday Voting Disasters, Natural and Completely Man-Made: ‘BradCast’ 3\/3\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I gotta make today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a> summary really quick, as polls are closing around the country and people are still fighting like hell to cast their votes out here in California. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>] <\/p>\n

With 14 states voting in today’s critical Super Tuesday elections, voters were once again prevented or absurdly delayed in their attempts to take part. Of all the states holding elections today (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia) only one — maybe two — had a good excuse for the failures.<\/p>\n

Tennessee<\/b> was hit with early morning tornadoes, which resulted in at least 25 dead<\/a> in or near Nashville, with some 15 polling places knocked out by the storms. Voting continued nonetheless in the Volunteer State, as well as in Alabama<\/b>, which also saw several twisters just as polls opened Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

But what are the excuses for forcing voters to wait in line for hours<\/i> in places like Austin and Houston, Texas<\/b> and up and down the great state of California<\/b>, where almost 700 delegates in total will be awarded towards the 1,991 needed to win a majority for the Democratic Presidential nomination?<\/p>\n

In the dozens and dozens of cases emerging throughout the day — in L.A. County<\/a> and at least 15 other California counties<\/a>, not to mention all over Texas<\/a> — as covered on today’s program (at least as many of them as we could fit in to a single hour!), it was the failure of computer touchscreen voting systems and electronic pollbook check-in computers. All of which was completely predictable. And we should know, because we’ve been predicting it for months and much longer<\/i>, as long time listeners and readers likely know.<\/p>\n

We cover a tsunami of such problems across the country today, particularly in California, where Bloomberg News is reporting tonight that L.A. County is admitting some 20% of the the new voting machines<\/a> deployed for the first time countywide in this election failed to work<\/a> today. Yes, these are the brand-new, 100% unverifiable, $300,000,000 touchscreen voting systems (which we’ve very specifically been a lonely voice in warning about<\/a> for YEARS — yes, as long ago as 2010, when I was invited to the first development meeting and gave the very same warnings many others are finally<\/i> offering today. See my 2013 interview<\/a> with their brainchild, L.A. County Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk Dean Logan, from back before he decided to no longer answer my questions<\/a> or appear on the program.)<\/p>\n

We also open the phones to callers ringing in with their own various nightmarish experience on L.A. County’s new systems and we get an update from the polls in Southern California via KPFK<\/a> News Director ERNESTO ARCE<\/b> along with much more infuriating madness on today’s program. (Including a smear on Twitter from Logan who called me a liar there last night<\/a> after I had reported on Sunday<\/a> that a poll worker at the Hollywood Bowl voting center said he was not allowed to speak to the media and that I had to call a special number to ask questions like “Was it busy today?” “Why was this voting center shutdown for hours yesterday?” “Have many voters been seeing their ballots jammed in the new printers, like that woman?” But, of course, I shared the “receipts”<\/a> to show who was actually<\/i> lying.)<\/p>\n

Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, on billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer quitting the Democratic Primary race, the coronavirus’ deadly clearing of China’s air, and a sad sign of climate change at Yosemite National Park…<\/p>\n

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